
09 June 2008
I can no longer recall why I decided to shoot the swans at 16mm with the lens close to the water . . . it looked like fun at the time!
From WikiPedia: The Round Pond is a pond in Kensington Gardens, London, in front of Kensington Palace. It is, however, not at all round, but more like a square with protuberances at the corners.
Tags: "Canon EOS 5D", Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, CanonEOS5D, Day 161, England, Flickr, Kayode Okeyode, Kensington, London, Mute Swan, photography, photos, Pond, Round Pond, sunset, Swan, UK, United Kingdom

08 June 2008; 2242 Hours.
Lensbaby.
Tags: "Canon EOS 5D", CanonEOS5D, Day 160, England, Flickr, Kayode Okeyode, Lensbaby, London, London Underground, Londonist, photography, photos, Tube, Tube Station, UK, United Kingdom

07 June 2008; 2220 Hours.
(The longer days were killing me at this point and I made lots of mistakes and gaffs on day 159).
Normally, I would like to get close to the guy on the bench but he was a homeless guy wandering around the platform and feeding off the leftovers left by the commuters and I wasn’t sure if I ought to photograph this.
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06 June 2008; 2304 Hours
Tags: "Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM", "Canon EOS 5D", Battersea, Battersea Power Station, bridge, CanonEOS5D, Day 158, England, Flickr, Grosvenor Bridge, Kayode Okeyode, London, Londonist, Motion, Night, photography, photos, Reflection, Reflections, UK, United Kingdom

05 June 2008, 2200 Hours
Tags: "Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM", "Canon EOS 5D", CanonEOS5D, Day 157, England, Flickr, Kayode Okeyode, London, Night, photography, photos, Pier, Twilight, UK, United Kingdom, Westminster Pier

04 June 2008; 2213 Hours
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This is an ISO 6400 image shot last night of a commuter presumably on her way home from work.
I try not to use the 135mm on the London Underground because it can be difficult to get a high shutter speed but it was too late to change lens.
This was shot at f/2.2 with a shutter speed of 1/250 seconds at ISO 6400. AF was lousy due to the dark hair / dark overcoat.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t clean up the noise in Lightroom; the same picture from Digital Photo Professional (DPP) was so much cleaner and if this was professional work, I would have processed this with DPP for the client but I have gone with the Lightroom version for this blog.
Update: After writing the above, I downloaded and installed Neat Image to clean up this picture.
Tags: Bokeh, Candid, Canon 5D, Canon 5D Mark 2, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon EF 135mm F/2L USM, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, CanonEOS5DMarkII, Commute, Commuter, Commuters, Commuting, England, Flickr, Kayode Okeyode, London, London Underground, Londonist, photography, photos, Travel, Tube, Tube Station, UK, United Kingdom, Urban